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According to a leftie who keeps on at me on Twitter, the problem for Labour is that the 2019 election merely represents a continuation of it...

My mother, a lifelong supporter of the Labour Party and member for nearly four decades, liked to tell me her party was a Broad Church. Th...

Gerald Kaufman, who has just died aged 86, at least fulfilled his wish of remaining an MP until the end of his life. He represented a tough...

Let’s wind the clock back to 1981. Specifically, to 25 January. This is the day when four former Labour cabinet members, known as the Gang o...

It ’ s always a joy to make a new friendship. I particularly enjoyed meeting a new Austrian colleague the other day. In conversations coveri...

The main mouthpiece of British high Toryism, the Daily Telegraph , is involving itself in a Labour Party election. The Telegraph gets s...

I know there are many people who regularly get up at 6:00 in the morning, and I have a great deal of admiration for them. For me, however, ...

Richard Lederer, in his Anguished English , quotes a student who believed that the sun never set on the British Empire because the Empire wa...

Every now and then I read of the death of a public figure that touches me more than others.  I was particularly sorry to learn that Eri...

It’s a curious fact that’s not well known outside Sweden that one of its Kings spent time as a prisoner of the Turks. Is this just somethi...